Death of the Innocent

CNN: A boy choked to death on a piece of popcorn. He was only three years old. Tragic as his death is, he choked while sharing popcorn with his family while they watched Alien vs. Predator.
What nut brings his 3-year-old to the movie theater? A 3-year-old doesn’t understand movies well enough. Very maybe if they [...]

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News for the Day

It is Friday the 13th.
I will be going to my very first baseball game today. Hopefully it will be as short as possible.
The government is scrapping/revising the project that was to run background checks on airline passengers (CNN).
A group of technology companies is working together to devise a new wireless standard that will be 10 [...]

Keyless Locks

We open doors with keys. Keys and locks are a simple technology that has been around for a few hundred years or so. Keypads only have been around for a few decades. Instead of using a physical key, you use a code as an electronic key to open a lock. Locks continue to change. Most [...]

A Dutch Oversight: Toe Licking isn’t Forbidden

CNN: You can lick a person’s toes in The Netherlands and get away with it. At least, you used to be able to. Now they’ve made a law to ban toe licking. How …. stupid?
Apparently a 35-year-old man would sneak up on women sunning on the beach and lick their toes. It’s been going on [...]